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Other Icons

Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture

Other Icons( )
Author: Maguire, Eunice Dauterman
Maguire, Henry
ISBN:978-0-691-12564-0
Publication Date:Sep 2006
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $160.00
Book Description:

A winged centaur with the spotted body of a leopard playing a lute; a naked man with an animal head; a goat-footed Pan; a four-bodied lion; sphinxes, and hippocamps. Few would associate these forms of art with the Byzantine era, a period dominated by religious art. However, an art of strikingly secular expression was not only common to Byzantine culture, but also key to defining it. In Other Icons, Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire offer...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Art / History / European / Medieval
Design / Decorative Arts
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):21.59 x 22.86 x 6.35 cm
Book Weight:1.08 Kilograms



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